- Name: Malcolm Gherig
Nickname: Mal
Gender: Male
Age and Birth Date: 28, May 29th
Occupation: Homicide Detective
APPEARANCE
Mal wears two piece suits in black or greys, with obnoxious brightly patterned ties. No matter how neat he was when he left his door, he invariably looks rumpled by the time he sees the public, tie loose and top button undone.
Mal is pale enough that he spends the summer months rotating between sunburnt and peeling with no stopping at any degree of tan. His hair is dark brown, starting to go grey, and he wears it short on the sides and longer on top, where sometimes it flops over an eyebrow. He has deep set blue-hazel eyes behind plastic, square-rimmed glasses, and combined with his dark brown eyebrows it gives him a look of surprised disapproval. He has a generous mouth that turns down the slightest little bit at the corners, and a strong jaw.
(This is a pretty good example.)
PERSONALITY
+ Loyal: Mal has many acquaintances but few real friends. Those people are people he would die for, and more importantly, cover things up for.
- Skeptical: He is a cop from a family of cops, but had the misfortune of being placed in a department rife with corruption. His view of the world is now mostly in shades of grey. While this means that no one is ever one hundred percent guilty, it also means that no one is one hundred percent innocent, or acting on entirely pure motives.
- Armored: Mal will be pleasant to you, interact socially with you, but getting under his skin to the man beneath the polite, perpetually surprised shell takes some doing, and many people don't ever get there-- and don't ever realize it.
+ Calm in a Crisis: He's one of those people who, while they may not know what to do in times of crisis, keep their calm and so appear to know what they're doing. He may not have the best plan, but he'll come up with something to keep people from falling apart into hysteria.
DEITY
Mal is a Chosen of Zeus due to his vocation, his unwillingness to think of anyone as truly guilty or innocent, and his ill-luck with love.
